Saint-Apollinaire (Côte-d'Or)
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Côte-d'Or | |
| Arrondissement | Dijon | |
| Canton | Saint-Apollinaire (main town) | |
| Community association | Dijon metropolis | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 20 ' N , 5 ° 5' E | |
| height | 215-278 m | |
| surface | 10.24 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,463 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 729 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 21850 | |
| INSEE code | 21540 | |
| Website | www.ville-st-apollinaire.fr | |
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Saint-Apollinaire is a French town with 7463 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Côte-d'Or department in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It belongs to the Dijon Métropole municipal association and is just 3.3 kilometers northeast of Dijon .
history
Saint-Apollinaire was founded as Aqualiacus in Gallo-Roman times . Aqualiacus is derived from the Latin expression aqua locus and means "place of water". The name suggests that there were many local sources.
Clotilde (465-545) had a small church built in Saint-Apollinaire around 500. The church was dedicated to St. Apollinaris of Ravenna . The city itself was not then called Saint-Apollinaire. It seems as if the church was built instead of a pagan temple, because the springs were already considered miraculous in pagan times. The pagan rites were Christianized by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Bénigne by invoking Apollinaris of Ravenna while the sick took ritual baths. Between 1000 and 1028 the monks wrote the "Book of Miracles of Saint Apollinaris" ( livre des Miracles de Saint-Apollinaire ) to underpin the Christian claim to the sources.
In the 14th century the place was called Saint Apoloner or Saint Espoloney . In the 19th century, the local dialect was called Saint Epleuney and the residents were called Epleumiens . During the French Revolution , the place was renamed Fontaine Soyer because saints were not wanted in place names.
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1152 | 2403 | 3795 | 4611 | 5577 | 5025 | 6239 | 7340 |
Town twinning
A partnership with the German community of Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz has existed since September 28, 1978 .
literature
- François Biju-Duval: Saint-Apollinaire au Moyen-Âge . Un village au temps des ducs du Bourgogne. Trout, Saint Apollinaire 1997, ISBN 978-2-84290-024-3 . (French)
